Perl

With Perl 6 coming out, is Perl worth learning? (complete newbie to Perl here)

On a side note, does having a BDFL actually benefit the progress of a language in any way?

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does having a BDFL actually benefit the progress of a language in any way?
Absolutely not. It hinders any kind of real progress, while adding new ``feature'' like a new useless procedure, or XKCD joke module, in the library.
See: Python, its lambdas, its tail calls, its antigravity, from __future__ import braces and this modules.